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JAN[1] says "time management" is a disability (limitation, in their words) that requires accommodation. [1] https://askjan.org/limitations/Managing-Time.cfm?csSearch=10...

At the risk of being roasted for recommending pop-culture things, the podcast Philosophize This is pretty good for a high-level overview. I'm sure there are issues and simplificati…

Completely out of tech: my sister has a dog training business. I will go train dogs with her and help her run her business. It may not be totally safe from a big economic downturn.…

Same, thank you. I have a friend and coworker who is currently struggling with this thing and similar "not making anything" issues from having worked a "maintenance/support" job co…

I really enjoyed The Burnout Society, read it about two months ago and plan to read some more. The "positive power" idea that you can do anything always struck me as funny but I di…

Went to a Starbucks the other week, had a gift card to blow... looked pretty dim and potentially like they were closing shop but I could still see people. No hours posted on the do…

A small but silly one: breaking middle and right click functionality for links. An auction site I use loads in the list of auctions after the rest of the page loads in, and also do…

Disrepair is too right. 5k issues and 1.7k open PRs on the Gutenberg GitHub repository. I wish this all had happened before Full Site Editing was put into .org.

Not who you asked but: - Quiet - Susan Cain (introversion in general) - Cues and Captivate - Vanessa Van Edwards (business-focused social skills) - The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-De…

At the risk of sounding like a jerk, the Ram/Shyam story -- it sounds like one of those people is good at getting their job done and works well to solve hard problems independently…

I have personal experience with a manager who acted similarly intrusively, seeming to want to blur lines between professional and personal. They later critiqued my (supposed) emoti…

Power asymmetry and also group pressure. There is still plenty of tacit pressure to share despite the "optional" caveat. Someone who says directly "I don't like this, no thank you"…

Not a study, but this article was enjoyable. Some of the experiences there say it made their writing overly perseverative on detail, too expansive, too many edits and re-writes. So…

The platitude "assume positive intent" helps a little bit. Especially at work, there's not a big downside to assuming your coworkers generally have positive intent. For me that say…